Automatic entry of birthdays into calendar

Is there anyway to have a contact's birthday automatically be loaded into the calendar. It would be so nice to know that reminders would be automatically set up as soon as I enter a contacts birthday. Is there an add-on that does this??

Re: Automatic entry of birthdays into calendar

We developed an add-on called "Calendar View Plus for ACT!" that allows the user to add any date field from the contact table directly onto the calendar view. It includes annual field such as Birthdays and any date or date. CVP also supports many other features not found in the native ACT! Calendar such as side-by-side columns and color rules.

Re: Automatic entry of birthdays into calendar

There is a smart task called Birthday Reminder, in 2011, that is turned on by going to Manage | Schedule. In the templates folder, there is the birthday reminder task. Click on enable Auto Run, and it will run automtically.

Re: Automatic entry of birthdays into calendar

Thank you for your response. For the life of me I cannot locate this auto function. Could you please provide more detail. I went into sched then manage but could not find the template. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

That tour shows you graphically what I'm talking about. If you do this and that smart tasks isn't there, you probably have an earlier version of ACT!. You will have to go with one of the other posters suggestions.